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CHECK. APPLlcMmN Flu-:n Auam. 1915.

l?, Pmma June 6,1916.

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` L ROSS R. SIGSBEE, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

; Toallfwliom it may/concern? 4Be it known that I, Ross R. Stesura, a citiz'en of the United 'States of America, re-

Sdlng` at NSW York, in'the county of New York and State of New York, have invented lcertain new and useful vImprovements in Checks, of which ,the following is a speciulfication.'

.Thispinvention rela-testo checks to,` be used ing-business, such as is; ordinarily practised by merchants, the checkstobe'g'iven to'each l1feash purchasersalhe time of sale 'or to such credit purchasers Whoapromptly settle their bills, the `clcirsLQrthei""having certain values eitherat the stoesofjthe'mrchant or "at, a'lcenter point for the distrilrutiomf :othergoods than that which' the nieclminL` may\be\p@ided with perforations 1li or"y preferably handles.

' ,More especially thel invention embraces' a checkyvhich may beu'sed as the stub of an 'ordinary charge slip orbth'e'like and which, `when Apresented at the-storeof the vender after proper cancellationv will indicate acertain discount value bearing' a percentage ratioto the value of the purchased goods or when presented elsewhere, as to a central distributing store, Will indicate by the cancellation effected at the sale a certain other percentage ratio which Will be equivalent to cash for the indicated amount in the purchase of such merchandise or accommodations as may be at the disposal of such central agency. The particular design of the de'ujice is to 'provide a discount order on tlr; merchant selling the goods and at the sar'ne time to also indicate an order on an associa tifa; of merchants for a certain value of tickets, such as car tickets, theater tickets, train or other tickets as may be desired.

The principal object of the invention is ,A to provide a 'check or stub of this description wherein one side will have certain percentage discount indications which may be cancelled by punching or the like, While the other side will have certain other indications correlated With the first which Will be ccncellod' by the same cancellation that elfects the cancellation of the discount order on the first side, the first side being referred to as the obverse and the second side as the reverse hereinafter.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention-'cpnsists in general of certain novel details ofy construction and arrange- Spec'ieation of Letters Batenit.

himnd up in Pads Patented June Appucation ined August 31,' 1915. serial 110.748,192.

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` theseveral views, and Figure lisa face IvifeyvA ofthe obverse side of .a check constructed in accordance with this invention FiglfQ is a similar view of the reverse side of suchA check. p 'fw $55 In carrying outthe objects of theinven-m tion, therea-reprovided for each merchant a vseries of checks preferably cou'sistingllof rectangular slips of vpaper or the like as 'indicated'ratMlO. Y These checks are", eithen in the ordinary manne i" mnounting the'rironlasuitable holder.; Each of these'heckfsxconsistof-nngnpper .part whereon is providedongtlre obverseside'`- series of rdiscount orderv indications as atl?, v,which are arrangedopposite a series ofpurchaseindications, the dollar indications being indicated at 13 while the cent indicas tions are indicated atfla Below theseQindi-'30 cations is a plaque 15 containing the instructions for the purchaser and a description of the value of such a check when presented to the merchant issuing the same.

On thel reverse side of the check is a series of cash value indications 16 representing a value for whichV the check may be exchanged at a central agency for goods handled by such an agency. Below these indications is a plaque 17 explaining the utility of such reverse indications.

The vindications 12 on the obverse side are so arranged with respect to the indications 16 on the reverse that when a purchase is made both the discount order and the order on the central agency will have their values clearly indicated, these values being different, by means of such cancellation as is effected by punching outl the values opposite the purchase price indications. :As an illustration of this let it be supposed that av person purchases six dollars and thirty cents Wonth of goods from amerchant. The merchant takes one of the checks and,l with a suitable punch or'other device which will mark on both sides of the paper at once punchings orinarkings opposite the figures indicated by A and B, these punchings or markings being formed in the parallelogranis indicated ati-cw and -Z respectively. These punchings or markings will also appear on the rear side at -aand *6%- respectively. In the present case, as illustrated in the drawings, a discount of four per cent. is allowed on the merchant, while the reverse calls for a ticket for which a cash equivalent of three per cent. is allowed. Then the six dollars and thirty cents will represent a discount on the urchasers next order from the merchant o 25.2 cents while at the saine time if he does not use the order with the merchant he may present the sam'e at the central ticket distributing agency where it will be received` as the e uivulent of 18.9 cents toward the purchase o one or more tickets. Thus, the operation of canceling the discount value on the face or obverse of he heck simultaneously effects the cancellation of the purchase value on the reverse of such check. v

It is obvious that the particular discount and cash percentages illustrated in the present disclosure of the invention may be varied without departing from the principles involved and also that not only may discount and cash purchase values be used but either side of the check may be used for a different purpose than that disclosed, for

instance, one side of such check may be used for cash purchases. at a certain percentage rate of discount while the other side may be used for credit purchases which are settled within a given time at a somewhat smaller percentage rate of discount. Many other variations will suggest themselves, all of vwhich are within the invention.

lVhat is claimed as new is:-

1. A-credit check having on one side'indiscope of the present cations of credit values at one rate per cent.

and on the. other side indications of. credit values at'. a second rate per cent., saidindi cations of credit values at one rate per cent.

and on the other side indications of credit values at a second rate per cent., said indications being disposed each opposite side of the check and in registration whereby cancellation from the check of an indication at one rate per cent. will simultaneously cancel a correlated indication at the second rate per cent., und purchase price indications spaced from and disposed in juxta-position to the credit value indications., on one side of the check, the indications on each side being superposed above a direction plaque giving directions for the use of the credit values on that side.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.

f ROSS R. SIGSBEE. 

